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Phiyega slams Farlam Commission

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Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega has again criticised the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, which blamed her officers for the deaths of 34 miners in the 2012 Marikana shootings.

Phiyega says police management did not have murderous intentions on the day of the shootings. President Jacob Zuma is under pressure to fire Phiyega following the findings of the inquiry.

She has until Friday to inform him why she should keep her job.

Police spokesperson Solomon Makgale says, “The intention of that statement is to say, if the commission had thought that the management went to work with murderous intent, then the commission would have recommended that they be charged with murder.”

He adds: “There is nothing in the report that says they went to work with the intention to go and kill people, but in the conversations that we have heard in the media, people are saying that management went and killed people.”

Watch video of Riah Phiyega during the Farlam Commission.

Phiyega refuses to take questions on Marikana report.

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